I do not concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me. But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. Psalm 131:1-2 One of the reasons why we worry is because we are trying to understand or make sense of our past, and we are disappointed with where we are in life. We have experienced some perplexing life circumstances. Our life has turned out so differently from the way we expected it to, that we almost feel duty bound to try and understand why it happened. This is entirely natural and it is what everyone else is doing. However, we have absolutely got to stop thinking like this if we want to get free from worry. Worry has to understand. Worry wants to continually analyze the situation. We want to know: “Why me? Why did it happen? Why did God allow it to happen? What the Psalmist is telling us is that he has had a personal breakthrough. He’s managed to get beyond that paralyzing place of anxiety and intensity, where we have to know why it happened. There are some files on my computer that I never open. They are full of stuff from the past that won’t help me in my future, so I don’t go there. I want to encourage you to drag and drop the stuff that you don’t understand into that folder – simply because you may never get an explanation in this life for why it happened. That may be a shocking and crushing piece of news, but you know that’s a real possibility – you may never know why it happened. God may never give you a satisfying explanation in this life, so what is the most sensible course of action in order for you to have an emotionally healthy remainder of your life on earth? Drag and drop it in your “I don’t understand” file and don’t go back there. Don’t re-open it, because it will only make you sad. Go and open your good file, even if you don’t feel like there is much in there, stay thinking about the good things in your life and do yourself a favour, and follow the Psalmist’s advice – you’ll worry less and be happier as a result!